Why Can't I Find Some of This Stuff to Decorate My Playroom?

I assume all these weapons are real. Probably never kept in this castle during their period of use. Most of the furnishings we see when we visit old European castles and estates are from the same time period that the building was in its heyday, but what they put in the rooms comes from elsewhere. Hundreds of years of Peasant Wars, revolutions and fires destroyed most of the genuine royal equipment.

Day Four - It's About Time We Went Inside That Bloody Castle

December 27th 2009
I'm sort of looking forward to getting out of Edinburgh and into the Bed and Breakfasts we booked for the remainder of the trip. It's too easy to sleep in when you're not worried about getting downstairs to breakfast before they close it up. Once again we slept in a little longer than we normally would. This has helped us adjust more easily to the time difference, but it also makes me feel like ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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